Nancy

Nancy is a city in northeastern France. Nancy was built as a fortified town by Gerard, Duke of Lorraine in 1050, and it soon became the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine. In 1477, Rene II, Duke of Lorraine became Lorraine's ruler after the slaying of Philip the Handsome of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy, and it remained a part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1766, when it reverted to France on the death of Duke Stanislaw Leszczynski. In 2012, Nancy had a population of 105,067 people.